No
rolls. The battalion is mentioned in the official
records of date
February, 1863, when Capt. William Wren was ordered
to dismount Maj.
Steede's Battalion and organize, if possible, two
full and efficient
companies, February, 1863. April, 1863, 171 present,
474 absent;
attached to Gen. John Adams' command, Jackson.
Fourteenth Infantry
and Steede's Battalion only troops left at Jackson,
May 3, 1863.
United with Richardson's Cavalry at Brookhaven and
ordered to operate
against Grant's supply trains, May 5. In June, with
Gen. John Adams'
command at Yazoo City. July 30, with Cosby's
Brigade, Jackson's
Division Cavalry. November, 1863, 260 present.

The
battalion was a part of the Ninth Regiment, with
Ferguson's Brigade,
in the Atlanta campaign, 1864.

The
dismounted men of Ferguson's Brigade were sent for
temporary service
to Mobile under Major Steede, Seventeenth
Mississippi Battalion, from
camp at Carthage about 5th or 10th of December,
1864. Reported March
10, 1865, Steede's Mississippi Cavalry Battalion,
Maj. Abner C.
Steede, attached to McCown's Missouri Brigade,
French's Division, in
or about Mobile.

Captain
C. A. Jennings and First Lieutenant Allen, Company
G, were wounded
near Kenesaw Mountain.

This
regiment was formed by the consolidation of Steede's
Battalion and
Sander's Tennessee Battalion, under the command of
Col. Horace H.
Miller, formerly of the Twentieth Infantry, which
was mounted during
the Vicksburg campaign. The Ninth Regiment was in
camp at Madison
Station, February, 1864, and a portion was sent by
Gen. S. W.
Ferguson on a reconnaissance toward Jackson, where
Sherman's army was
passing through to Meridian, "which duty was
promptly and
efficiently accomplished,” said Ferguson. "This
command did
not rejoin me until February 14." The regiment is
not enumerated
in the organization of Gen. S.D. Lee's Cavalry
Corps, February 20. It
is listed Ninth Mississippi, Col. Horace H. Miller,
in Ferguson's
Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry, Army of Mississippi, in
the Atlanta
campaign. The scout company of the brigade was Capt.
Thomas C.
Flournoy's company of this regiment. The regiment is
mentioned as on
the picket line near Kenesaw Mountain, June 26,
1864. Casualties,
June 9, 3 killed, 4 wounded. Casualties, June 9-24,
2 killed, 14
wounded. In September it is listed in Ferguson's
Brigade with
Eleventh and Twelfth Mississippi, and Second and
Fifty-sixth Alabama. Ferguson's Brigade, in the fall
of 1864. was transferred to Gen.
Joseph Wheeler's Cavalry and was in Wheeler's
battles during
Sherman's march to Savannah and siege of that city.
(See Twelfth
Battalion.) January 31, 1865, Capt. Benjamin Stevens
commanding, in
Ferguson's Brigade, Iverson's Division, Wheeler's
Cavalry.

A
portion of the regiment was in the Mississippi
district in March,
1865, and was assigned to the command of Col. W. B.
Wade, in
Forrest's Cavalry. March 15, all officers and men of
Ferguson's
Brigade, including Col. H. H. Miller's Regiment, now
rendezvousing at
Shubuta, ordered to report to Maj .-Gen. W. T.
Martin at Carthage,
Ala. "Colonel White of the Ninth," and a number of
officers
and men were reported among the captures of Wilson's
troops at Selma,
Ala., April 2, 1865. Ferguson's Brigade was part of
the escort of
President Davis in Georgia, April, 1865.

April
9, 1865, Colonel Miller, commanding Ninth, at
Coffeeville, Ala.,
ordered to report at Demopolis. His command was used
as scouts at the
front toward Mobile, until the capitulation, May 4.